BBC's Blandings

[caligularib.livejournal.com]

  Anyone else seen it?  I've just finished the first series and I'm totally charmed by it.  I expected to enjoy it, although the reviews were mixed and I've never been as great a Blandings fan as I've been a Jeeves & Wooster fan, but I was surprised by how much I really took to this adaptation.  In particular I like Jack Farthing as Freddie and Mark Williams as Beach.

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I saw two eps, I think. I liked it.

[horacebulregard.livejournal.com]

I watched the series in a span of two days. I saw a review that said it wasn't the tightest script they'd seen, and I do see where they're coming from. But I really like it because it does a great job of capturing that sort of too-bright thinginess of the world of Wodehouse, if that makes any sense. Like, the costumes are so bright and the characters so over the top that one can never believe they're real people, but you end up liking them because of how idealized and caricatured they are.

And that pig, my word. XD